What do you think about a forum?

[Carey Jones]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:37:28AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Well I for one will not subscribe to web forums.  I already have two
> simple and effective means of discussing things, mailing lists and
> Usenet newsgroups.  For both of these I can choose my preferred
> software and my means of getting at them.  With a web forum I have to
> re-learn everything and I have yet to come across a forum that's as
> easy to use as a good newsreader.

Agreed...also, every web forum thing I've tried to use has done a
terrible job of keeping up with read/unread messages.

Searching is nice, but I think a more useful option would be to
add a search function to the archive pages at
http://varmint.moongroup.com/pipermail/xfce/

But hey, that's just me.


 -c

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